“Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now.”
Chris Van Allsburg
“No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation”
Walter Bagehot
“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
“One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.”
Charles de Lint
“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.”
William Shakespeare
“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”
Louis Untermeyer
“And strictly meditate the thankless Muse.”
John Milton
